China first publishes professional reports in the field of software

The Analysis Report on the Registration of China's Software Copyright in 2011 compiled by the China Copyright Protection Center has recently been published. This is the first time that software copyright registration agencies have completed professional reports in the software field 20 years after China’s software copyright registration system was implemented. According to the report, as of June 2012, the China Copyright Protection Center had completed 474,633 software copyright registrations, among which the registration software exceeded 100,000 for the first time in 2011, reaching 109,342.

Since the implementation of the software registration system in China in 1992, software copyright registration has played an important role in defining ownership relationships, avoiding disputes, securing transaction security, and reducing litigation costs.

According to the analysis of the report, in recent years, the changes in the number of software copyright registrations in China and the software industry's operating revenues are very similar. From 2006 to 2011, the average annual growth rate of software registration was 36.8%, and the growth rate of software industry business income was 29%.

In addition, the distribution of China's software copyright registration areas is uneven. In the eastern part of the economically developed areas, the amount of software copyright registrations is much higher than in the central and western regions. In 2011, 88,591 were registered in the eastern region, accounting for 81% of the total national registration, 7.9 times that of the central region and 9.7 times that of the western region.

In 2011, the number of software copyright holders in China reached 35,899, an increase of 2.2 times from 2007. Among them, the number of corporate copyright holders is growing fastest, and copyright holders are mainly concentrated in economically developed regions.

Analysis of the registered software shows that the original software registration accounted for an absolute majority. In 2011, there were 105,987 original software registrations, accounting for nearly 97%, of which application software accounted for nearly 83% of the total number of registrations; the Internet of Things grew fastest, and in 2009, there were only two software related to the Internet of Things technology. By 2011, it had rapidly increased to 688 items, which was a four-fold increase from the same period of last year. 2011 was a year in which China’s cloud computing began its rapid development. The number of related software copyright registrations increased rapidly, and 890 items were registered throughout the year, a year-on-year increase of over 370%. , becoming the fastest growing category of software after IoT software.